As a great deal as I’d like to report that very last night time I had supper with my dad and mom, drinks with Updike, and an orgy with all a few of the Brontës, the fact is I’m by yourself below. Lowell claimed in the "Afterthought" to Notebook 1967-1968 that "in truth I seem to be to have felt typically the joys of dwelling in remembering, in recording, thanks to the present of the Muse, it is the pain." A poetry of scrupulous self-examination, Lowell’s perform, as Vereen M.